American Naturalist

Papers
(The median citation count of American Naturalist is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Front and Back Matter186
Replicated Functional Evolution in Cichlid Adaptive Radiations46
Acquired Phototrophy as an Evolutionary Path to Mixotrophy35
Estimating Density Dependence, Environmental Variance, and Long-Term Selection on a Stage-Structured Life History34
Front and Back Matter34
Front and Back Matter32
Soilscapes of Mortality Risk Suggest a Goldilocks Effect for Overwintering Ectotherms31
Inbreeding and competitor’s genetic relatedness affect dynamic male color-ornament expression in a cichlid fish29
Avian Predators Avoid Attacking Fly-Mimicking Beetles: A Field Experiment on Evasive Mimicry Using Artificial Prey28
Front and Back Matter26
Learning from Our Study Organisms about Sexual Selection: Lessons from the Ocellated Wrasse25
Understanding the Role of Naive Learners in Cultural Change25
Pyrophilic Plants Respond to Postfire Soil Conditions in a Frequently Burned Longleaf Pine Savanna24
Differences in Thermal Tolerance between Parental Species Could Fuel Thermal Adaptation in Hybrid Wood Ants23
Long-Term Decrease in Coloration: A Consequence of Climate Change?22
When and Where We Can Expect to See Early Warning Signals in Multispecies Systems Approaching Tipping Points: Insights from Theory22
Georgii F. Gause’s The Struggle for Existence and the Integration of Natural History and Mathematical Models21
Front and Back Matter19
Metabolic Rate Diversity Shapes Group Performance in Honeybees19
Using Computational Simulations to Model Deleterious Variation and Genetic Load in Natural Populations19
Front and Back Matter18
Eavesdropping Micropredators as Dynamic Limiters of Sexual Signal Elaboration and Intrasexual Competition18
Front and Back Matter18
Extreme High-Elevation Mammal Surveys Reveal Unexpectedly High Upper Range Limits of Andean Mice18
The Evolution of Resource Provisioning in Pollination Mutualisms18
Gut Microbiota Uniqueness Is Associated with Lake Size, a Proxy for Diet Diversity, in Stickleback Fish18
Repeated Divergence in Opsin Gene Expression Mirrors Photic Habitat Changes in Rapidly Evolving Crater Lake Cichlid Fishes18
Resource Variation Within and Between Patches: Where Exploitation Competition, Local Adaptation, and Kin Selection Meet17
Higher Mortality Is Not a Universal Cost of Dispersal: A Case Study in African Wild Dogs17
The Origin of Asexual Brine Shrimps17
Who Keeps the House after Divorcing? Partner and Nest Fidelity in the Long-Lived Alpine Swift17
Evolutionary Epidemiology Consequences of Trait-Dependent Control of Heterogeneous Parasites17
Seasonal Alternation of Putative Camouflage Wing Morphs of the American Snout Butterfly (Libytheana carinenta)17
What’s Gender Got to Do with It? Dismantling the Human Hierarchies in Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Toxicology for Scientific and Social Progress17
Dynamic Trait Distribution as a Source for Shifts in Interaction Strength and Population Density16
Front and Back Matter16
Effects of Plasticity on Elevational Range Size and Species Richness16
Adaptive Evolution Can Both Prevent Ecosystem Collapse and Delay Ecosystem Recovery16
Bending the Course of Evolution: How Mutualistic Interactions Affect Macroevolutionary Dynamics of Diversification in Mimetic Ithomiini Butterflies16
Correction16
Detecting Nonadditive Biotic Interactions and Assessing Their Biological Relevance among Temperate Rainforest Trees15
The Impact of Coinfection Dynamics on Host Competition and Coexistence15
Strain Diversity and Spatial Distribution Are Linked to Epidemic Dynamics in Host Populations15
Natural Selection after Severe Winter Favors Larger and Duller Bluebirds15
A New Diploid Parthenogenetic Whiptail Lizard from Sonora, Mexico, Is the “Missing Link” in the Evolutionary Transition to Polyploidy15
Familia, Comunidad y Maestros: How I Became a Latina Science Professor15
Stochasticity Leads to Coexistence of Generalists and Specialists in Assembling Mutualistic Communities15
Sex-Specific Associations between Social Behavior, Its Predictability, and Fitness in a Wild Lizard15
Effects of Phylogeny on Coexistence in Model Communities15
Front and Back Matter15
Hazardous Loss of Genetic Diversity through Selective Sweeps in Asexual Populations14
Can Conflicting Selection from Pollinators and Nectar-Robbing Antagonists Drive Adaptive Pollen Limitation? A Conceptual Model and Empirical Test14
Natural selection of synthetic gene drives for population suppression can favor an intermediate strength of drive14
Intransitive Stability Collapses Under the Influence of Dominant Competitors14
Anisogamy Does Not Always Promote the Evolution of Mating Competition Traits in Males14
Treasurer’s Report, 202014
Integrating Infection Intensity into Within- and Between-Host Pathogen Dynamics: Implications for Invasion and Virulence Evolution14
Social Behavior, Ovary Size, and Population of Origin Influence Cuticular Hydrocarbons in the Orchid Bee Euglossa dilemma13
Deriving Population Scaling Rules from Individual-Level Metabolism and Life History Traits13
Demographic Attritions, Elevational Refugia, and the Resilience of Insect Populations to Projected Global Warming13
A Cryptic Sex-Linked Locus Revealed by the Elimination of a Master Sex-Determining Locus in Medaka Fish13
Aquatic Soundscape Recordings Reveal Diverse Vocalizations and Nocturnal Activity of an Endangered Frog13
Habitat Heterogeneity, Environmental Feedbacks, and Species Coexistence across Timescales13
2023 American Society of Naturalists Awards13
Context-Dependent Benefits of Aphids for Bacteria in the Phyllosphere13
The Extension of Foundress Life Span and the Evolution of Eusociality in the Hymenoptera13
Monarch Butterfly Migration as an Integrative Model of Complex Trait Evolution12
Adaptive Maternal Effects Shape Offspring Phenotype and Survival in Natal Environments12
Host Energetics Explain Variation in Parasite Productivity across Hosts and Ecosystems12
Quantifying Phylogenetic and Nonphylogenetic Patterns in the Richness, Frequency, and Identity of Links in a Herbivore-Parasitoid Interaction Network12
The Adaptation Front Equation Explains Innovation-Driven Taxonomic Turnovers and Living Fossilization12
Periodical Cicada Emergences Affect Masting Behavior of Oaks12
Front and Back Matter12
Corrigendum12
Mate Sampling Behavior Determines the Density Dependence of Sexual Selection11
Do Interactions among Microbial Symbionts Cause Selection for Greater Pathogen Virulence?11
Nested versus Independent Sampling: Solving the Mystery of Contradictory Species-Area Relationships11
Host Identity Matters—Up to a Point: The Community Context of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Transmission11
The Demographic Consequences of Adaptation: Evidence from Experimental Evolution11
Seasonality in Kgalagadi Lizards: Inferences from Legacy Data11
Close Kin Dyads Indicate Intergenerational Dispersal and Barriers11
Social Familiarity and Spatially Variable Environments Independently Determine Reproductive Fitness in a Wild Bird11
Female Reproductive Fluid Increases the Opportunities for Postmating Sexual Selection by Prolonging the Egg Fertilization Window11
Effects of Parental Care on the Magnitude of Inbreeding Depression: A Meta-Analysis in Fishes11
Population Dynamic Consequences of Context-Dependent Trade-Offs across Life Histories11
Patterns of Plant Salinity Adaptation Depend on Interactions with Soil Microbes11
The Evolution of Mate Attachment10
How Important Are Functional and Developmental Constraints on Phenotypic Evolution? An Empirical Test with the Stomatal Anatomy of Flowering Plants10
Front and Back Matter10
Mate Preferences and Choosiness Are Distinct Components of Mate Choice in Eastern Gray Treefrogs (Hyla versicolor)10
Sexual Selection Increases Male Behavioral Consistency in Drosophila melanogaster10
Plant Phenotypes as Distributions: Johannsen’s Beans Revisited10
Sons Shorten Mother’s Lifespan in Preindustrial Families with a High Level of Infant Mortality10
Secretary’s Report, 202310
Evolutionary and Ecological Processes Determining the Properties of the G Matrix10
Asymmetric Evolvability Leads to Specialization without Trade-Offs10
Evolutionary Origins and Patterns of Diversification in Animal Brood Parasitism10
Bargain to Be Dominant10
Asynchronous Life Histories Generate Uneven Arms Races and Impact the Maintenance of Mutualisms10
Mechanistic Models of Trophic Interactions: Opportunities for Species Richness and Challenges for Modern Coexistence Theory10
Priority Effects Determine How Dispersal Affects Biodiversity in Seasonal Metacommunities9
Strength of Sexual Selection and Sex Roles Vary between Social Groups in a Coral Reef Cardinalfish9
Front and Back Matter9
Looking across Scales in Disease Ecology and Evolution9
Revisiting the Role of Genetic Variation in Adaptation9
What Can Evolutionary History Tell Us about the Functioning of Ecological Communities? The ASN Presidential Debate9
Seasonality and the Coexistence of Pathogen Strains9
Coupled Oscillators in an Agroecosystem: Integrating Direct and Indirect Effects9
Resurrecting Historical Observations to Characterize Species-Specific Nesting Traits of Bumblebees9
Multiyear Time-Shift Study of Bacteria and Phage Dynamics in the Phyllosphere9
Testing the Mating System Model of Parasite Complex Life Cycle Evolution Reveals Demographically Driven Mixed Mating9
Thermal Costs and Benefits of Replicated Color Evolution in the White Sands Desert Lizard Community9
Density-by-Diet Interactions during Larval Development Shape Adult Life History Trait Expression and Fitness in a Polyphagous Fly9
Spatially Explicit Habitat Selection: Testing Contagion and the Ideal Free Distribution with Culex Mosquitoes9
Five Decades of Data Yield No Support for Adaptive Biasing of Offspring Sex Ratio in Wild Baboons (Papio cynocephalus)9
Quantitative Prediction of Interactions in Bipartite Networks Based on Traits, Abundances, and Phylogeny9
Genome composition predicts physiological responses to temperature in polyploid salamanders9
The Evolution of Rodent Tail Morphology9
Colonial Legacies Influence Biodiversity Lessons: How Past Trade Routes and Power Dynamics Shape Present-Day Scientific Research and Professional Opportunities for Caribbean Scientists8
Social Learning of Innovations in Dynamic Predator-Prey Systems8
Filial Cannibalism Leads to Chronic Nest Failure of Eastern Hellbender Salamanders (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis)8
Synchrony and Perturbation Transmission in Trophic Metacommunities8
Do Mixed-Species Groups Travel as One? An Investigation on Large African Herbivores Monitored Using Animal-Borne Video Collars8
Comparing the Predicted versus Realized Rate of Adaptation of Chamaecrista fasciculata to Climate Change8
Monitoring Demography of Resurrected Populations of Locally Extinct and Extant Species to Investigate Drivers of Species Loss8
Polyandry as a Male Strategy? A Game between Aggressive and Tolerant Males, Arbitrated by Females8
Vertical Niche Partitioning and the Performance of Mixotrophic Generalists against Autotrophic and Heterotrophic Specialists under Contrasting Light-Nutrient Supply Regimes8
Variation in Avian Predation Pressure as a Driver for the Diversification of Periodical Cicada Broods8
Front and Back Matter8
Predator Group Composition Indirectly Influences Food Web Dynamics through Predator Growth Rates8
Front and Back Matter8
Host Developmental Stage Effects on Parasite Resistance and Tolerance8
Better to Divorce than Be Widowed: The Role of Mortality and Environmental Heterogeneity in the Evolution of Divorce8
Multimorph Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics in Structured Populations8
Predicting and Controlling Spillover in Multispecies Disease Transmission Networks: Steady-State Analysis8
Dorsal and Ventral Plumage Coloration Evolve as Distinct Modules with Different Environmental Correlations8
The Effects of Foraging Ecology and Allometry on Avian Skull Shape Vary across Levels of Phylogeny8
Front and Back Matter8
Individual Quality Drives Life History Variation in a Long-Lived Marine Predator8
Genetic Variation in Male Aggression Is Influenced by Genotype of Prior Social Partners in Drosophila melanogaster8
Resource Competition and Host Feedbacks Underlie Regime Shifts in Gut Microbiota8
Assembly, Persistence, and Disassembly Dynamics of Quaternary Caribbean Frugivore Communities8
Unraveling Adaptive Evolutionary Divergence at Microgeographic Scales8
Acceptable Loss: Fitness Consequences of Salinity-Induced Cell Death in a Halotolerant Microalga8
How Dispersal Evolution and Local Adaptation Affect the Range Dynamics of Species Lagging Behind Climate Change8
Evolution of Plant Niche Construction Traits in Biogeomorphic Landscapes7
Frequency-Dependent Hybridization Contributes to Habitat Segregation in Monkeyflowers7
Parameter Sensitivity of Transient Community Dynamics7
No evidence for paternal age effects on sons or daughters, when accounting for paternal sperm storage7
Analyzing Time-Energy Constraints to Understand the Links between Environmental Change and Local Extinctions in Terrestrial Ectotherms7
The Mismatch between Range and Niche Limits due to Source-Sink Dynamics Can Be Greater than Species Mean Dispersal Distance7
The Ecology of Spider Sociality: A Spatial Model7
The Contributions of Maternal Age Heterogeneity to Variance in Lifetime Reproductive Output7
Color as an Interspecific Badge of Status: A Comparative Test7
Retiring “Cradles” and “Museums” of Biodiversity7
Front and Back Matter7
Intergenerational Effects of Early-Life Starvation on Life History, Consumption, and Transcriptome of a Holometabolous Insect7
A Trade-Off between Robustness to Environmental Fluctuations and Speed of Evolution7
Organisms as Complex Structures Wrapped in a Complex Web of Life7
Competitive Displacement and Agonistic Character Displacement, or the Ghost of Interference Competition7
Evolutionary Determinants of Nonseasonal Breeding in Wild Chacma Baboons7
Price Equations for Understanding the Response of Ecosystem Function to Community Change7
Front and Back Matter7
Epigenetic Potential and DNA Methylation in an Ongoing House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) Range Expansion7
Accelerated Phenology Fails to Buffer Fitness Loss from Delayed Rain Onset in a Clade of Wildflowers7
Partitioning the Apparent Temperature Sensitivity into Within- and Across-Taxa Responses: Revisiting the Difference between Autotrophic and Heterotrophic Protists7
A Test of Haldane’s Rule in Neodiprion Sawflies and Implications for the Evolution of Postzygotic Isolation in Haplodiploids7
Behavioral Strategies and the Spatial Pattern Formation of Nesting7
The Contribution of Mutation to Variation in Temperature-Dependent Sprint Speed in Zebrafish,Danio rerio7
Long-Term Resilience of Primary Sex Ratios in a Species with Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination after Decades of Climate Warming7
Same Colors for Different Functions: Implications for the Evolution of Carotenoid-Based Ornamentation7
Host-Parasite Coevolution in Continuous Space Leads to Variation in Local Adaptation across Spatial Scales7
Evidence of Biological Self-Organization in Spatial Patterns of a Common Tropical Alga7
Natural Selection on Adults Has Trait-Dependent Consequences for Juvenile Evolution in Dragonflies7
New Evidence Suggests No Sex Bias in Herbivory or Plant Defense7
Null Models for the Opportunity for Selection6
SLiM 4: Multispecies Eco-Evolutionary Modeling6
A New Twist on an Old Story: Pollination and Seed Predation in Jadera haematoloma6
Evolution of the G Matrix under Nonlinear Genotype-Phenotype Maps6
Predicting and Measuring Decision Rules for Social Recognition in a Neotropical Frog6
Erratum6
A Case for the “Competitive Exclusion–Tolerance Rule” as a General Cause of Species Turnover along Environmental Gradients6
Secretary’s Report, 20246
Nutrigonometry I: Using Right-Angle Triangles to Quantify Nutritional Trade-Offs in Performance Landscapes6
Schrödinger’s Range-Shifting Cat: How Skewed Temperature Dependence Impacts Persistence with Climate Change6
Front and Back Matter6
Correction6
Novel Genomic Insights into Body Size Evolution in Cetaceans and a Resolution of Peto’s Paradox6
When Do Traits Tell More Than Species about a Metacommunity? A Synthesis across Ecosystems and Scales6
The Dominance of Coinfecting Parasites’ Indirect Genetic Effects on Host Traits6
Front and Back Matter6
Mutation and Selection Induce Correlations between Selection Coefficients and Mutation Rates6
Allee Effects and Coexistence6
Context-Dependent Host-Symbiont Interactions: Shifts along the Parasitism-Mutualism Continuum6
Effect of the Seed Bank on Evolutionary Rescue in Small Populations: Univariate and Multivariate Demogenetic Dynamics6
The Stability of Competitive Metacommunities Is Insensitive to Dispersal Connectivity in a Fluctuating Environment6
Front and Back Matter6
Uncovering Cryptic Coevolution6
Sequestration of Defenses against Predators Drives Specialized Host Plant Associations in Preadapted Milkweed Bugs (Heteroptera: Lygaeinae)6
Divergent Pathways of Nitrogen-Fixing Trees through Succession Depend on Starting Nitrogen Supply and Priority Effects6
On Male Harm: How It Is Measured and How It Evolves in Different Environments6
Fruit Size in Indo-Malayan Island Plants Is More Strongly Influenced by Filtering than by In Situ Evolution6
Impacts of Flowering Density on Pollen Dispersal and Gametic Diversity Are Scale Dependent6
Oak Galls Exhibit Ant Dispersal Convergent with Myrmecochorous Seeds6
The Geography of Sexual Conflict: A Synthetic Review6
Front and Back Matter6
The Use and Underuse of Model Systems in Infectious Disease Ecology and Evolutionary Biology6
Alternative States in Plant Communities Driven by a Life-History Trade-Off and Demographic Stochasticity6
Fitness Costs of Female Competition Linked to Resource Defense and Relatedness of Competitors5
Coevolution of Patch Selection in Stochastic Environments5
Inverse Lansing Effect: Maternal Age and Provisioning Affecting Daughters’ Longevity and Male Offspring Production5
The Effect of Predator Population Dynamics on Batesian Mimicry Complexes5
Density-Dependent Selection during Range Expansion Affects Expansion Load in Life History Traits5
What Ecological Factors Favor Parthenogenesis over Sexual Reproduction? A Study on the Facultatively Parthenogenetic Mayfly Alainites muticus in Natural Populations5
Genetic Load, Eco-Evolutionary Feedback, and Extinction in Metapopulations5
Evolution of a Mosquito’s Hatching Behavior to Match Its Human-Provided Habitat5
A Behavioral Syndrome Linking Boldness and Flexibility Facilitates Invasion Success in Sticklebacks5
Front and Back Matter5
Differential Survival and Background Selection in Cryptic Trunk-Dwelling Arthropods in Fire-Prone Environments5
Abiotic Niche Divergence of Hybrid Species from Their Progenitors5
Editorial Expression of Concern5
Context-Dependent Reproductive Isolation: Host Plant Variability Drives Fitness of Hybrid Herbivores5
Diversity-Dependent Diversification in the History of Marine Animals5
Within-Host Viral Growth and Immune Response Rates Predict Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus Transmission Dynamics for African Buffalo5
Niche Specificity, Polygeny, and Pleiotropy in Herbivorous Insects5
Female Audience Shapes the Complexity and Syntax of Male Courtship Displays in a Lek-Mating Bird5
Food Plant Shifts Drive the Diversification of Sack-Bearer Moths5
Sex Allocation in a Monogamous Bird: Advantaged Matrilines and Sons with Silver Spoons5
Steep Hierarchies without Skew? Modeling How Ecology and Decision-Making Shape Despotism of Relationships5
Front and Back Matter5
Rapid Body Color Change Provides Lizards with Facultative Crypsis in the Eyes of Their Avian Predators5
Effects of Phylogenetic Relatedness on Fluctuation-Dependent and Fluctuation-Independent Coexistence Mechanisms in Multispecies Communities5
Better Together: Offspring Benefits from Siblings Both in the Absence and Presence of Parents5
Disentangling Verbal Arguments: Intralocus Sexual Conflict in Haplodiploids5
Niche Packing and Local Coexistence in a Megadiverse Guild of Frugivorous Birds Are Mediated by Fruit Dependence and Shifts in Interaction Frequencies5
Low Heritability but Significant Early Environmental Effects on Resting Metabolic Rate in a Wild Passerine5
Thermal Plasticity in Behavioral Traits Mediates Mating and Reproductive Dynamics in an Ectotherm5
Larval Density, Sex, and Allocation Hierarchy Affect Life History Trait Covariances in a Bean Beetle5
Environmental Fluctuations Promote Host Reward Strategies That Maintain Partner Diversity in Multispecies Mutualisms5
On the Dynamics of Mortality and the Ephemeral Nature of Mammalian Megafauna5
On the Interpretation of the Operation of Natural Selection in Class-Structured Populations5
In Memoriam5
Front and Back Matter5
Host Controls of Within-Host Disease Dynamics: Insight from an Invertebrate System5
Compensatory Growth Is Accompanied by Changes in Insulin-Like Growth Factor 1 but Not Markers of Cellular Aging in a Long-Lived Seabird4
Front and Back Matter4
Honorary Lifetime Membership Award: Ellen D. Ketterson4
Loss of Avian Intromittent Organs as a Sperm Competition Strategy: A Race to Be Last4
Distributing Defenses: How Resource Defendability Shapes the Optimal Response to Risk4
Inclusive Fitness May Explain Some but Not All Benefits Derived from Helping Behavior in a Cooperatively Breeding Bird4
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